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Mount Athos · Stop 12 · Day 4
Great Lavra
Tradition
Founded in 963 by St Athanasius the Athonite, the first great monastery of Athos; his tomb is in the church.
Here today
The first in rank of the 20 monasteries, a walled monastery near the south-east tip of the peninsula.
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